Re: st: AW: Question on xtreg and the FE option

Klaus Pforr replied to Andrew Nicholson:
> For your problem, a good solution is -- as clivelist recommended -- to use
> your xtreg, fe with time dummies.
>
> A simple example would be:
>
> webuse nlswork, clear
> xtset idcode
> xtreg ln_wage age ttl_exp i.year, fe
>
> this is a candidate of a simple answer to your presumably simple question.
An alternative is to use -areg, absorb()-. See:
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2007-06/msg00776.html
for an ?IC example.
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